Ducks taking off

Was shooting at a family feeding ducks with bread when, all of a sudden, WHAM! and most of the ducks decided to take off without any sort of disruption... even more amazing, it was shot from a 75-300mm F4-5.6 without a tripod AND didn't even have time to aim true and well... (Those who have the lense know that the lense is heavy and really causes camera shake easily. If only I could have an IS lense )

Was a pity that I couldn't step down the aperture to give the blurred motion, but mano, it's a spectacular sight. Cropped and colour-corrected :blushing:

you're quite right thatcamerathingy, those are not ducks....they are the dreaded northeastern new zealand non-cemetery water crow. this particular species feeds on small mammal, weighing them down and therefore rendering their take-offs slow...easy to catch on film or sensor. nice work...i haven't one in a while.

Water Crows! Aren't they mallard ducks in New Zealand ? (All right, I know nothing abourt birds, they are look like ducks to me as long as they float on water ) It just happened so that it's hunting season now and that most ducks are concentrated around Hamilton Lake to get away from the shotguns The background is Waikato Hospital.

With regards to the "crow-business" going on here on the board, don't take anyone seriously any longer, amoki, or you will get all confused in the end.

Among you and I: sure these are just mallard ducks!
That is exactly what they are.

But tortoises have already been called "crows" here, and my crow (i.e. photo of a real and true crow) was called a "bear"...by this same JonMikal, if you believe it or not, a BEAR he said it was. So I called the photos of his pigeons "a colony of sea lions", :greenpbl:, so there! Ha!